Michael Morton was born in 1938 and educated at Haileybury College, in Hertfordshire, UK. AA 1957-1962. He appears to have studied initially at The Polytechnic Regent Street School of Architecture (now University of Westminster), before joining the Second Year of the Architectural Association Diploma course in 1957. After completing his Third Year he took a year out, working for both the ‘Architects Co-Partnership’, at Tema, Ghana and ‘Nickson and Borys’, at Accra. On returning to the AA, Morton elected to study at the Department of Tropical Studies for his Fifth Year. Following graduation, Morton appears to have worked in Australia, before taking up a position with the General Division of the Greater London Council, where he worked on a number of fire-stations, taking retirement in 1988. In 2005 he was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for seven years. 

Sources

•  Architectural Association Student Register, 1961-62. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 19th February, 1962. AA Archives
• Archiwik, ‘Jonathon Morton’. Retrieved 25th June, 2026, https://www.archiwik.org/index.php/Jonathan_Morton